Thought I would post this for those techies out there... it gave me a good laugh =P
http://windowsitpro.com/article/art...-the-x-box.html
http://windowsitpro.com/article/art...-the-x-box.html
The website is down because someone removed the X-Box...
5 posts · 2008-05-24 21:19:11 to 2008-05-25 20:55:31
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<./img>Jurymen wrote:
Thought I would post this for those techies out there... it gave me a good laugh =PHaha! Nice find Jury
http://windowsitpro.com/article/art...-the-x-box.html
Haha. How funny is that one!
I had a brief chuckle... then I RAGED!
Largely because something like that has happened to me more than once.
The best one ever was we had a SunOS box that we'd stashed in a janitor's closet that backed onto the server room because of some stupid power cabling problem (we just ran a cat-5 cable straight through the wall to hook it up).
I went overseas and apparently all the other staff that knew about the box were rotated out of their jobs. I got a call about 2 years later from my old boss who said they'd lost the machine. Here's the jist of what was said:
me: So scan the IP ranges... you'll find it.
ex-boss: No, you don't understand me. We've lost the machine... it's reporting on the network and functioning fine... We can't find it though. The documentation says it's in room ABC but that room is a classroom.
me: wait... that room is meant to be a cupboard.
EB: we remodelled the engineering building last year and the rooms got renumbered.
me: well there should be a small closet behind the north server room wall.
EB: we already looked and there's no room there
me: umm... there should be a cable coming straight out the back of rack B and going through the wall.
EB: one sec let me check... Yeah it's there
me: so follow that.
EB: ok let me call you back.
*2 days later*
EB: Heh... we found the server
me: where was it?
EB: where you said
me: ???
EB: It turns out that they wanted to get rid of the closet so they took the handle off and just nailed a sheet of plasterboard over it... with the server inside.
He then went on to tell how the director of facilities had a blue-fit when he saw two IT techs tearing down some quite new wall.
Largely because something like that has happened to me more than once.
The best one ever was we had a SunOS box that we'd stashed in a janitor's closet that backed onto the server room because of some stupid power cabling problem (we just ran a cat-5 cable straight through the wall to hook it up).
I went overseas and apparently all the other staff that knew about the box were rotated out of their jobs. I got a call about 2 years later from my old boss who said they'd lost the machine. Here's the jist of what was said:
me: So scan the IP ranges... you'll find it.
ex-boss: No, you don't understand me. We've lost the machine... it's reporting on the network and functioning fine... We can't find it though. The documentation says it's in room ABC but that room is a classroom.
me: wait... that room is meant to be a cupboard.
EB: we remodelled the engineering building last year and the rooms got renumbered.
me: well there should be a small closet behind the north server room wall.
EB: we already looked and there's no room there
me: umm... there should be a cable coming straight out the back of rack B and going through the wall.
EB: one sec let me check... Yeah it's there
me: so follow that.
EB: ok let me call you back.
*2 days later*
EB: Heh... we found the server
me: where was it?
EB: where you said
me: ???
EB: It turns out that they wanted to get rid of the closet so they took the handle off and just nailed a sheet of plasterboard over it... with the server inside.
He then went on to tell how the director of facilities had a blue-fit when he saw two IT techs tearing down some quite new wall.
